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Original Text (Annotation: EPW006315 / 291873)

' The Old Drill Hall, 31 Townshend Terrace. Former drill hall of the 9th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps.,( later B & C companies, 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment.) In 1912 Brooklands aviation pioneer R. L. Howard-Flanders established a short lived aeroplane factory here. Mr J. A. Whitehead took over the redundant building in May 1915 and founded the Whitehead Aircraft Co., Ltd. '

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